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ECCS SHIPS SYNCHRONISM(TM)AND SIMPLIFIES ENTERPRISE DATA STORAGE
New Storage Management System Unifies SAN and NAS and Gives Corporate IT Departments Complete Control of Their Critical Information Assets
Tinton Falls, New Jersey - June 11, 2001 – ECCS, Inc. (NASDAQ: ECCS), an industry leader in fault-tolerant, cost-effective enterprise storage solutions, significantly enhanced its product offering today by introducing the SynchronismTM Storage Management System.
Synchronism is an enterprise class storage solution/system that aggregates, virtualizes and manages diverse storage resources and provisions these resources over IP. Synchronism provides full redundancy and unifies storage area networks (SAN) and network attached storage (NAS) to provide the best of SAN-type storage management, while integrating NAS applications in a more extensive and accessible storage network.
With its remote replication and snap shot capability, Synchronism also provides full disaster protection. This powerful, integrated functionality reduces the implementation, enhances the control and productivity of the IT staff while providing and enhanced return on investment.
Gregg Azcuy, ECCSs President and CEO said, "Information is the most important asset of any company. With Synchronism, each companys IT department can now become its own Storage Services Provider without having to trust its valued information to an outside entity." Azcuy added, "Synchronism will put ECCS on the forefront of the enterprise data storage industry because it provides the functionality, security and reasonable price that customers have been asking for." Synchronism includes the following features:
Easy Back-Up: Allows LAN free, Server free back up
Snap Shot: Allows multiple, independent point-in-time copies to shorten the back up window
Data Mover: Enables duplication from disk-to-disk or from disk-to-tape
Remote Replication: Allows asynchronous mirroring for disaster recovery and on-line backup with the split mirror feature
Fault Tolerance: The Synchronism FT version provides full fault tolerance with no single point of failure that the customers have come to expect from ECCS
"ECCS has introduced a feature rich integrated product that uses the exciting IP infrastructure to talk to the servers while utilizing the fibre or SCSI interface to connect to the storage. This combines the best of both worlds," said Arun Taneja, Senior Analyst at Enterprise Storage Group. "The introduction of Synchronism solves the problem of data asset control and security currently facing many CFOs, CEOs and CIOs"
About ECCS
ECCS, Inc., is an industry leader in supplying fault-tolerant solutions that store, protect and manage data in complex networks with greater ease and superior cost savings. The companys SynchronixÔ product line as well as its SynchronectionÔ 2 and RavenÔ systems are all modular units that can be configured and stacked to meet customers' specific and expanding data storage requirements. ECCS is ISO-9001 certified and sells its products through its direct sales force and a network of qualified systems integrators.
ECCS competes against companies such as EMC (NYSE:EMC), Network Appliance (NASDAQ:NTAP), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW) as well as Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000 storage systems. The company distinguishes itself in the marketplace via the superior cost/performance ratio of its high-quality, fault-tolerant products. For more information, point your Web browser to www.eccs.com, or call 1-800-322-7462.
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